You clearly missed the license flamewars on here from the 90s. Or maybe you have Alzheimer's. Either way you're wrong.

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Did they ever mention copyrights on Star Trek???

I believe there was an episode where they tried to copy Data...?

That was in the past. Nowadays, rampant copyright violation is the norm in America, so the distinction is moot. (sadly)

Make sure the ICE doesn't get you.

Kids today need AI to tell them about licenses. In my day, we learned about them from the BBC.

Eric.

The main problem I have with a wealth tax is that it depends on the timing. I don't see any natural way to decide when it should be assessed. Also how do you decide what time period of wealth accumulation to consider? Maybe you can clarify how you justify it, but I think it's a can of worms,

Everyone is assessed once a year at tax time already. There's no technical problem assessing wealth per se. You fill a form with your data. Sign it. If you omit items and are found out, the IRS comes after you.

There's no time period in wealth tax. It's based on marking to market. At any time, you have a number which represents your total wealth. At tax time, you give %X of that number to the IRS according to a published schedule.

You have the right to bear arms. The rest is a negotiation between You and The Law.

Nah. Only those who count.

Sorry, you're not in Kansas anymore. Most slashdotters won't get the reference.

Both the Saudis and the Chinese have such a clear incentive structure to help prevent the problem. Everyone knows that there is a line, and bad things happen if the line is crossed. But the exact location of the line is not known. This causes a chilling effect and cautious behaviour automatically.

I'm not sure that a profits tax is a good lever for your purpose. A much simpler, more powerful answer is a wealth tax. Money is power. Entities and People who have Money are therefore dangerous and should be cut down to size by slicing away their power automatically. Profits alone are once removed from the power, and depend on an arbitrary accounting mechanism which interferes with enforcement.

Lovely! Two Brits pretending to be Americans who are outraged at the State of the States, warbling away in melodious language for the secret entertainment of their compatriots. Meanwhile everyone awaits for the Colonials to wake up and stomp in :)

The rich people are stable geniuses. They don't need no sycofefe, it's all dynamite in a barrel.

In Donald Rumsfeld's sense.

You're not addressing the fact that the bill for AI startups is coming due very soon. Being more expensive than India outsourcing is irrelevant when the investors want their gazillion returns that they were promised only a couple of years ago.